Anthropic’s Claude AI has had app-like functionality from third-party services for most of the last year, but until now, it's been mostly focused on business tools. It's now expanding to include more services that may help you in your everyday life.
Anthropic calls its integrations with other services Connectors, allowing you to use branded tools directly from the AI chatbot. This new launch brings 15 additional services, with plans to introduce more consumer-friendly apps in the near future.
The new outside-of-work services include AllTrails, Audible, Booking.com, Instacart, Intuit Credit Karma, Intuit TurboTax, Resy, Spotify, StubHub, TaskRabbit, Thumbtack, TripAdvisor, Uber, Uber Eats, and Viator.
Anthropic’s marketing shows how you could use its Spotify integration to find a playlist for a specific scenario. A prompt says, “Long study session ahead. Can you find me a mix that helps me focus?" The app then pulls from Spotify’s ready-made personalized playlists, such as Focus Studying Mix, Instrumental Studying Mix, and more.
Other examples include asking for healthy lunch options nearby and seeing local restaurants on Uber Eats, or asking for a hotel room within a set budget, with TripAdvisor pulling up the latest pricing. You don't need each prompt to reference an app directly; it pulls in useful information if your prompt could be answered by one of its integrations.
Anthropic says, "Claude now suggests the right app for what you’re doing, like finding a reservation, adding to a grocery cart, or identifying a flight. It’s working from what you’ve told it: your preferences, your context, your conversation."
The brand is clear that it won’t be introducing sponsored recommendations through these tools. It says, “There are no paid placements or sponsored answers in conversations with Claude. When two connectors could help, you see both, ranked by what’s most useful to you."
You can try out all 15 new services across all versions of Claude. You’ll find each through the Customize button in the sidebar, then press Connectors to browse over 200 different third-party services.
This isn’t the first time some of these services have had AI integrations. Options like Booking.com, Spotify, and Uber, among others, are also available on OpenAI's ChatGPT .
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